January’s top news stories

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Lendlease is to serve as a partner for the £1.5bn ($2.7bn) Birmingham Smithfield site redevelopment project, and MVRDV received a contract to design a mixed-use complex that will redevelop a post-industrial site in Kiel. Designbuild-network.com wraps up the key news headlines from January 2019.

Netherlands-based architecture firm MVRDV received a contract to design a mixed-use complex that will redevelop a post-industrial site in Kiel, Germany.

The 65,000m² mixed-use complex will be based on a flexible design system instead of a fixed and unchangeable plan. This will allow the project design to adapt to the future needs of the community as its development progresses.

Under the proposal, labelled ‘KoolKiel’, the complex will house a hotel, offices, residences, commercial space, and event space.

Belgium-based Besix Group subsidiary Belhasa Six Construct won a contract to build the Uptown Tower, the first super-tall tower in the Uptown Dubai District being developed by Dubai Multi Commodities Centre DMCC.